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Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish لایحه (layiha), from Arabic لَائِحَة (lāʔiḥa). Compare Azerbaijani layihə.
Noun
layiha (definite accusative layihayı, plural layihalar)
- (law, government) bill
- a written report on a topic or project; memorandum; proposal
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “layiha”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2947
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “layiha”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لایحه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1622
- Wehr, Hans (1960) “لوح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN